Top 10 Inspirational Books – January 2015

Welcome to this month’s Aspire Magazine Top 10 Inspirational Books list! You’ll discover inspirational and empowering books, written by women and for women, each dedicated to sharing a universal message of love, hope and self-empowerment. Through their wisdom-filled books, these visionary female authors are illuminating the path for women on the journey of healing and self-discovery. Add these transformational books to your inspired living resource library.

Find Your Happy Daily Mantras
by Shannon Kaiser

Find Your Happy Daily Mantras provides 365 days of inspiration to cultivate more self-awareness, confidence and inner peace. A companion to the international bestselling book Find Your Happy, this is a must-have guide to make happiness and inner peace a habit. This book is more than a self-help guide. It is a tool for recovery, providing hope and a path to freedom from pain. Any recovery process requires a dedicated practice, and the wisdom contained in these pages will guide you to open your mind and heart to create a more purposeful, happy and healthy life.

 

Get Happy and Create a Kick-Butt Life
by Jackie Ruka

Life is not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself. As we experience job loss, divorce, unemployment, financial stress, relationship issues and attempts to keep up in a crumbling society, life may have kicked you down to which Author Jackie Ruka says,” it’s time to kick back and create your kick-butt life.”  Navigating today’s complex world and upping your game calls for highly targeted tools, action steps and imagination. By joining the conscious party and unleashing your inner creator you can change your life by choosing happiness first!
 

Soul Contracts: Find Harmony and Unlock Your Brilliance

by Danielle MacKinnon

Stop worrying and start living. This entirely new approach to life helps you recognize and release hidden barriers in your soul that are blocking the way to true happiness and success.In Soul Contracts, intuitive coach and consultant Danielle MacKinnon helps you recognize and release the energetic barriers lodged deep in your soul, called soul contracts. Born out of despair, fear, pain, or anger, a soul contract is an unconscious promise that you’ve made with yourself in the past that is now hindering your ability to move forward in life. Through a five-step process, you can identify, master, and release these hidden blocks, and thus unlock your greatest potential

 

Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for Happier Kids and More Joyful Parents
by Christine Carter, PhD

What do we wish most for our children? Next to being healthy, we want them to be happy, of course!
Drawing on what psychology, sociology, and neuroscience have proven about confidence, gratefulness, and optimism, and using her own chaotic and often hilarious real-world adventures as a mom to demonstrate do’s and don’ts in action, Christine Carter, Ph.D, executive director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, boils the process down to 10 simple happiness-inducing steps.
With great wit, wisdom, and compassion, Carter covers the day-to-day pressure points of parenting as well as the more elusive issues of helping children build healthy friendships and develop emotional intelligence.

Crazy Sexy Kitchen: 150 Plant-Empowered Recipes to Ignite a Mouthwatering Revolution
by Kris Carr

The woman who made prevention hot is now making it delicious! Crazy Sexy Kitchen, the follow-up to Kris Carr’s New York Times bestseller Crazy Sexy Diet, is a Veggie Manifesto for plant-empowered gourmands and novices alike, and it’s filled with inspiration, education, cooking tips and over 150 nourishing, nosh-worthy recipes. Infused with her signature humour, style and personal stories, Crazy Sexy Kitchen redefines the kitchen as headquarters for America’s wellness revolution. It’s a nutrient-dense, plant-happy approach to eating and living that harmonizes your beautiful body at the cellular level.
 

 

Your Quantum Breakthrough Code: The Simple Technique That Brings Everlasting Joy and Success
by Sandra Anne Taylor

Do the patterns of your life seem to have a momentum of their own? This is your opportunity to break through! Your old, reactive patterns of unknown negative energy don’t have to direct your destiny any longer. In this groundbreaking new book, New York Times Best-selling Author Sandra Anne Taylor reveals Your Quantum Breakthrough Code, the amazingly easy yet empowering technique that can completely reroute the direction of your life.Get ready for a quantum breakthrough! These fascinating, unbelievably quick, and easy techniques will bring you a life of unparalleled joy and success.
 
 

Assertiveness for Earth Angels: How to Be Loving Instead of “Too Nice”
by Doreen Virtue

Do people take advantage of your niceness? In this groundbreaking book, Doreen Virtue teaches Earth Angels (lightworkers and highly sensitive people) how to maintain their inner peace and loving nature while holding boundaries with others. You’ll discover how to overcome fears about saying no, and how to ask for what you want from those around you and from the universe.
Assertiveness for Earth Angels is for anyone who wants to learn the art of speaking up in relationships and in their activism about issues related to the world. Whether you need more assertiveness with your family, on the job or in your lightwork, you’ll appreciate Doreen’s gentle-but-firm approach to negotiating your earthly needs in heavenly ways! .

 

Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Successful and Less Stressed
by Paula Rizzo

What do Madonna, Martha Stewart, John Lennon, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Franklin, Ronald Reagan, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, and Johnny Cash have in common? Each is (or was) a list maker. These successful people, along with CEOs and successful entrepreneurs, all use lists to keep track of their ideas, thoughts, and tasks. Finding enough hours in the day to get everything accomplished and allow for some downtime can be a struggle. It’s no wonder so many of us are stressed, overextended, and exhausted. Listful Thinking is the book that will give readers their lives back with indispensable tips on saving time, getting organized, improving productivity, saving money, and reducing stress.
 

The State of Grace: A Mother’s Plea for Life Balance
by P.G. McGrath

A page turning, wry, witty account of the challenges wife, mother, and part-time business professor, Grace Purdy, faces as she gets divorced in a foreign country. Grace discovers no matter how hard she tries to “lean-in” and do it all sometimes it is hard to not feel bent over and ready to collapse. Still, with her humour, perseverance and Grace she finds a way to a new family life for her, her two sons and soon to be ex-husband.
 

 

Nurturing a Grateful Heart: The Power of Possibilities
by Beverly Jones-Durr

We’ve all been given the gift of gratitude, but some of us don’t know how powerful it can be. Follow me. I promise you will have a new perspective if not a stronger one of the power of gratitude. I opened my heart and mind in search of this amazing God given gift. It took me to my core, a place deep inside of my heart where the seed of gratitude was originally planted. Your seed is also planted there. Like any seed, it needs something to ignite it to grow to its full potential. Gratitude is not a thing you can check off a to do list. It’s a process. It will take a little time. Gratitude fully activated and functional flowing from your core is challenging to achieve but not impossible. There’s work to be done. Trust me, it’s worth it. Are you ready? .